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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) [Silent Movie]

Charlotte Movies — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:10:36 +0000

1h 40min. // Based on Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, this is the first movie filmed underwater. It tells the story of Captain Nemo who has built a fantastic submarine, the Nautilus, for his mission of revenge. Accompanied by a French professor and his daughter, the three of them will live an amazing adventure aboard the submarine.

Directed by: Stuart Paton

Writing Credits: Jules Verne (novel)

Starring: Allen Holubar (as Capt. Nemo), Dan Hanlon (as Professor Aronnax) and Edna Pendleton (as Aronnax’s Daughter)

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Awards:

WON. National Film Preservation Board, USA 2016. Stuart Paton

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Wings (1927)

sergio — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:34:25 +0000

2h 21min. // Two small-town young men, Jack Powell and David Armstrong, find their carefree lives upended when the Great War erupts and both enlist in the U.S. Air Service. Once friendly rivals for the same girl back home, they carry their competition into the skies of Europe, where flying is as new and dangerous as the war itself. Their training transforms them from eager boys into daring combat pilots, and the cockpit becomes the arena where courage, jealousy, and loyalty collide.

As Jack and David are shipped to the front, the film plunges into the chaos of aerial warfare, with sweeping dogfights and perilous bombing runs that push early special effects to astonishing heights. On the ground, the story is anchored by Mary, the spirited girl-next-door who quietly loves Jack and follows him overseas as an ambulance driver. Amid swirling biplanes, roaring engines, and bursting shells, the three young lives become entangled in a poignant triangle, where unspoken feelings and misunderstandings carry as much weight as enemy fire.

The brutal reality of war strips away illusions of glory. Jack and David’s rivalry slowly deepens into a hard-won camaraderie forged under fire, even as fate conspires to test that bond in the cruelest possible way. The film builds toward a devastating climax in the clouds, where a tragic case of mistaken identity turns victory into heartbreak. In its closing moments, the story returns home, haunted by loss yet searching for reconciliation, capturing both the exhilaration and the terrible cost of the first great age of aviation combat.

Blending intimate romance with large-scale spectacle, the film showcases the dawning power of cinema to put audiences right inside the cockpit, while never losing sight of the human faces behind the uniforms and goggles. Its mix of technical bravura and emotional sincerity still resonates with viewers who appreciate silent-era storytelling at its most ambitious.

Directed by: William A. Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast

Writing Credits: Julian Johnson, Hope Loring, Louis D. Lighton

Starring: Gary Cooper, George Irving, Clara Bow, Hedda Hopper, William A. Wellman

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Awards:

WON. Academy Award for Best Picture 1929. Best Picture. Wings.
WON. Academy Award for Best Engineering Effects 1929. Best Engineering Effects. Wings.

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The Dawn Rider (1935)

sergio — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:30:16 +0000

53min. // A lone rider drifts into a rough frontier town and almost immediately lands in a bare-knuckle brawl with hotheaded Ben McClure. Tempers cool as quickly as they flared, and over drinks the two strangers discover an unexpected bond: McClure works for the newcomer’s father at the local freight company. Their uneasy camaraderie is barely formed when they stride into the freight office and straight into a holdup in progress.

Inside, Mason’s father is being forced to empty his own safe at gunpoint. In a desperate bid to defend what’s his, he reaches for a weapon and is cut down by a bullet fired from outside the window. With his dying breath, he gives his son the only clue to the murderer’s identity: a polka dot bandanna. From that moment, the story becomes a grim pursuit, as Mason sets out to find the faceless killer hidden among the town’s ranch hands, drifters, and outlaws.

Suspicion, shifting loyalties, and the code of the Old West collide as Mason digs deeper into the mystery. Every card game, saloon encounter, and shadowy alley might conceal the man with the telltale bandanna, and every ally could prove false when guns are drawn. The film builds its tension not just on flying fists and six-shooters, but on the question of whether justice on the frontier will be served by the law—or by a son’s thirst for vengeance.

Directed by: Robert N. Bradbury

Writing Credits: Lloyd Nosler

Starring: John Wayne, Yakima Canutt, Marion Burns, Dennis Moore, George “Gabby” Hayes

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The General (1926) [Silent Movie]

Charlotte Movies — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:05:36 +0000

1h 18min. // When Union spies steal an engineer’s beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.

Directed by: Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman

Writing Credits: Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman (screenplay)

Starring: Buster Keaton (as Johnnie Gray), Marion Mack (as Annabelle Lee), Glen Cavender (as Captain Anderson) and Jim Farley (as General Thatcher)

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Awards:

WON. National Film Preservation Board, USA 1989. National Film Registry.

WON. Online Film & Television Association 2009. Motion Picture.

NOMINATED. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 2013. Best DVD/Blu-Ray Collection.

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Captain Kidd (1945)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:05:02 +0000

1h 20min. // Captain William Kidd, a clever and ruthless pirate, captures an English galleon’s treasure and hides it on an island. After this, he tricks the king King William III into commissioning him as escort for a treasure ship from India.

Directed by: Rowland V. Lee

Writing Credits: Norman Reilly Raine (screenplay), Robert N. Lee (story)

Starring: Charles Laughton (as Capt. William Kidd), Randolph Scott (as Adam Mercy / Adam Blayne) and Barbara Britton (as Lady Anne Dunstan)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1946. Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Werner Janssen

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Sherlock Jr. (1924) [Silent Movie]

Charlotte Movies — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:02:02 +0000

45min. // A young projectionist, who wants to be a detective, needs to clean up his name when an enemy blames him for stealing the pocketwatch of the father of his girlfriend.

Directed by: Buster Keaton

Writing Credits: Jean C. Havez (story), Joseph A. Mitchell (story), Clyde Bruckman (story)

Starring: Buster Keaton (as Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.), Kathryn McGuire (as The Girl), Joe Keaton (as The Girl’s Father / Man on Film Screen), Erwin Connelly (as The Hired Man / The Butler) and Ward Crane (as The Local Sheik / The Villain)

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Awards:

WON. National Film Preservation Board, USA 1991. National Film Registry.

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Keep em Flying (1941)

Charlotte Movies — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:00:03 +0000

1h 26min. // When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn’t know what it’s in for. An Abbott and Costello movie.

Directed by: Arthur Lubin

Writing Credits: True Boardman (screenplay), Nat Perrin (screenplay), John Grant (screenplay), Edmund L. Hartmann (story)

Starring: Bud Abbott (as Blackie Benson), Lou Costello (as Heathcliff), Martha Raye (as Gloria Phelps / Barbara Phelps), Carol Bruce (as Linda Joyce), William Gargan (as Craig Morrison), Dick Foran (as Jinx Roberts) and Charles Lang (as Jim Joyce)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 2009. Best DVD Collection. As part of “Abbott & Costello: Complete Universal Series Collection”.

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In Old Chicago (1938)

Charlotte Movies — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:59:02 +0000

1h 35min. // The O’Leary brothers — honest Jack and roguish Dion — become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

Directed by: Henry King

Writing Credits: Lamar Trotti (screenplay), Sonya Levien (screenplay), Niven Busch (story).

Starring: Tyrone Power (as Dion O’Leary), Alice Faye (as Belle Fawcett), Don Ameche (as Jack O’Leary), Alice Brady (as Molly O’Leary), Andy Devine (as Pickle Bixby) and Brian Donlevy (as Gil Warren).

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Awards:

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Alice Brady.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Best Assistant Director. Robert D. Webb.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Best Picture.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Best Writing, Original Story. Niven Busch.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Best Sound, Recording. Edmund H. Hansen.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Best Music, Score. Louis Silvers.

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The Steel Helmet (1951)

Charlotte Movies — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:59:01 +0000

1h. 25min. // A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.

Directed by: Samuel Fuller

Writing Credits: Samuel Fuller

Starring: Gene Evans (as Sgt. Zack), Robert Hutton (as Pvt. Bronte), Steve Brodie (as Lt. Driscoll), James Edwards (as Cpl. Thompson) and Richard Loo (as Sgt. Tanaka).

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Awards:

WON. Writers Guild of America, USA 1952. Best Written American Low-Budget. Samuel Fuller.

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Rio Conchos (1964)

Charlotte Movies — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:55:01 +0000

1h 47min. // A former Confederate officer and a Mexican try to prevent a former Confederate colonel from selling stolen rifles to renegade Apaches in Mexico.

Directed by: Gordon Douglas

Writing Credits: Joseph Landon (screenplay) and Clair Huffaker (screenplay and novel)

Starring: Richard Boone (as Lassiter), Stuart Whitman (as Capt. Haven), Anthony Franciosa (as Rodriguez), Wende Wagner (as Sally), Warner Anderson (as Col.Wagner) and Jim Brown (as Franklyn)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Golden Globes, USA 1965. Best Actor – Drama. Anthony Franciosa.

NOMINATED. Laurel Awards 1965. Action Drama. 5th Place.

NOMINATED. Laurel Awards 1965. Action Performance. Richard Boone.